"PS9" (PS9)
07/28/2014 at 02:35 • Filed to: None
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"PS9" (PS9)
07/28/2014 at 02:35 • Filed to: None | 4
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For maybe 4-5 years due to circumstances only partially within my control, my internet service has been provided by Century Link. For the rest of this read, they shall be known as Poopstick Communications.
Recently I moved in with some friends who signed a totally awesome contract with them that charges them $90/month for about $50 worth of service + $5 for every device that connects to the company provided router. Hey, did I say that was awesome, because I actually meant it was shittier than a shit sculpture of a dog making dogshit. They were reluctant to drop the contract for obvious and predatory reasons. But recently, their 7 mps of service dropped down to 1 mbps of service, with daily drops all the way down to .5 mbps. $90/MONTH AND YOU DON'T EVEN GET ONE FULL MEGABIT OF SERVICE ANYMORE.
When contacted about this 7x drop in service performance, they're response was basically fuck you. "Well...you know...it rained a lot...so it's going to be slow like this for the time being. Sorry." So now it's more like $90/mo for $9 worth of service. As you can imagine, my friends reluctance to drop a now exorbitantly overpriced contract changed immediately.
Now. Finally. After stealing 5 years of my life away with shitty service interruptions, throttling of streaming video and flat out cutting off the service for days at a time...my nightmare will be over. Once I take this step away from Poopstick Communications, I'm never going back! I SHALL BE FREEEEEEEEEEE
NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 02:41 |
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The United States is far behind in broadband compared to much of the world, largely (imo) because of the way the regulation works here. One of my favorite models is fiber to the home in Amsterdam, but I'm biased because I had a tiny part in that.
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> NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
07/28/2014 at 02:46 |
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Lots of places in the US have crappy internet infrastructure. Where I live (florida) isn't one of those places though, and century link got all of sprint's previously good infrastructure when it spun off from them, so they don't get that out. Look at this...18x slower than the national average. EIGHTEEN TIMES! Even montana has it better than I currently do, and look how deeply red that place is!
DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 02:48 |
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I have CenturyLink, because they're the only provider out in the sticks where I live. >.>
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NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 02:48 |
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Dude, that sucks . And like I said, the way the regulations are written, many of the providers can get away with it.
I live in the SF Bay Area, but my local phone company doesn't think that providing >768Kbps (not even 1Mbps!) internet is important, because, well, there's not much competition.
And it's not like people around here are internet crazy, after all. Sheesh.
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> NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
07/28/2014 at 02:55 |
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Well starting in August, there will be one less provider getting away with it with one less customer.
norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 03:00 |
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Wow I live in the one place out of NYC to actually have above average internet in NYS
Squid
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 03:20 |
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I live in a college town where you have the choice of ATT DSL or Comcast cable as your broadband internet access. If you go with comcast you will experience random internet outages several times a week along with unexplained slowdowns. At least we don't have a predefined $5 a month per device connected to the wifi.
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PS9
> Squid
07/28/2014 at 04:07 |
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You're getting married. You can choose between Lorena Bobbit, or Eileen Wuornos...
Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 04:41 |
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>1 Mbps / $90 per month
excuse me while I scream
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 05:41 |
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I have Verizon which isn't terrible, (by isn't terrible I mean isn't Comcast so they only bend me over a barrel once a week instead of every day... YAY!) I go to bed hoping against hope that Google fiber somehow magically appears by my house and instead of sending them a check I can send them this...
JGrabowMSt
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 09:27 |
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pshaw. Connect a desktop or laptop, set up internet sharing through it. Ta-da, "one" connected device, wifi for everyone else. Working at a computer shop, I would have gotten around that shit.
More importantly, I wouldnt have signed a contract that charges per device.
Glad youre free now though, Im sure it feels a whole lot better.
NaturallyAspirated
> PS9
07/28/2014 at 12:31 |
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Man, hearing horror stories like this makes me feel bad for complaining about my $75/mo 24Mbps AT&T U-Verse.
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> JGrabowMSt
07/28/2014 at 13:36 |
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Nope. They would just look up the subnet table and charge accordingly. Theres no way to obfusticate the presence of other devices to the network without cutting off said devices entirely.